The ground of arts
Subtitle: teaching the perfect work and practise of arithmetick both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact form then in former time hath been set forth
By: made by Robert Record ; afterward augmented by John Dee ; and since enlarged with a third part of Rules of practise ... by John Mellis ; and now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated & enlarged, with an appendix of figurate numbers ... calculated by R.C. but corrected ... by Rob: Hartwell ...
Contributors: Dee, John, 1527-1608; Mellis, John, active 1588; Hartwell, Robert
Publisher: Printed by M.F. for John Harison and to be sold at his shop in Saint Pauls Churchyard
Published: 1646
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1900
Other titles: The Grovnd Of Arts.
Work titles: Ground of artes
Notes: The third part, by John Mellis, has special title page.

Date of publication from Wing and Smith.

The paging as given in the table fo contents does not correspond with the text after p. 451, but agrees with tat of an earlier edition not containing an extra chapter, "Question of factoridge & interest" (p. 451-463) inserted in this edition between the second and third chapters of the third part.

Signatures: A-2S⁸.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, R650

Smith, D.E. Rara arithmetica, p. 220